Douluo Continent: The True Body and Blood Soul, Starting from Blacksmithing

Chapter 118 suggests that support is important.

As the eldest prince of the Heaven Dou Empire, his formation of his own team is normally unrelated to Lin Yu.

The reason for asking Lin Yu's opinion was mainly because Emperor Xueye, in order to win over Lin Yu through him, privately warned him: "Put Lin Yu first in everything."

This team is nominally Xue Qinghe's team, but he doesn't even have a place to live now and has to rely on Lin Yu for everything.

This means that if he wants to train a team, he has to do so at Lin Yu's residence.

Since he was going to train his team at Lin Yu's residence, he naturally needed to ask for Lin Yu's opinion.

Besides Emperor Xueye's arrangement, Xue Qinghe had another purpose in saying this in front of Tang San and Xiao Wu at this time: to increase Lin Yu's importance in Tang San's heart.

He could justify his motive of sending his sister to Lin Yu in front of Tang San, thus avoiding any negative feelings towards Lin Yu from Tang San at this stage.

He was the one who gave Xiao Wu to Lin Yu. If his actions cause trouble for others, then no one will remember his kindness in giving away this gift.

Lin Yu's thoughts were pulled back by Xue Qinghe, and he also temporarily considered the available people under Xue Qinghe's command.

It's indeed shabby, but our team is strong.

"A normal seven-person team needs one offensive Soul Master who charges into battle, one control Soul Master, one support Soul Master, two agile attack sub-DPS, and two ranged sub-DPS."

"In our team, Tang San can develop into a control-type and ranged sub-DPS, Xiao Wu and Yu Feng are pure agility-type, Ye Lingling is pure support, and I can be the team's power-type Soul Master or the team's ranged sub-DPS."

"Although our team only has five people right now, we have all the positions that a normal seven-person team should have."

Upon hearing that Tang San could serve as a ranged sub-DPS, Xue Qinghe couldn't help but glance at Tang San again.

Xue Qinghe understood Tang San's twin martial souls, but he didn't quite understand his "ranged secondary DPS" role.

How can Tang San launch a ranged attack? By simply throwing the Clear Sky Hammer?

Xue Qinghe, who was already curious about Tang San's role, changed his gaze towards Lin Yu after hearing that Lin Yu could also serve as a ranged sub-DPS.

He only realized Lin Yu's situation after the fact.

He originally thought that the silver robe and golden armor were the result of Lin Yu's martial soul mutation after absorbing the third soul ring.

But his grandfather, who had helped Lin Yu absorb the soul bone, told him that Lin Yu's silver robe and golden armor were just a special twin artifact attached to his bones, which only his martial soul could drive.

His martial soul is essentially a blood soul, but it is somewhat special: it is similar to a twin martial soul.

Special twin artifacts, special twin martial souls, and even the Golden Thunder Bone-Shattering Staff, a divine artifact that combines stats and ultimate power.

If his grandfather hadn't reminded him, he really wouldn't have noticed how good Lin Yu was at hiding things.

Now that he has voluntarily revealed that he can serve as a "remote sub-carry," it's clear he's no longer hiding anything.

Although he was very curious about Lin Yu's situation, Xue Qinghe's priority was to form a team, so he didn't stray from the topic.

"Based on what you've said, we have all seven spots on a normal team. So, for the remaining two members, what type of Soul Master do you think we should choose to maximize the team's strength?"

In response to Xue Qinghe's curiosity, Lin Yu held up three fingers.

"If we're going to recruit, our team needs at least three more players: one agility-based attacker, one power-based attacker, and one support. For the other positions, we can just hire a few experienced players as substitutes."

It's understandable that Xue Qinghe is an agility-based attacker, since agility-based attackers are easily injured in battle and need someone to take their place in time.

Why recruit a strong offensive character instead of a ranged sub-DPS? It could be because Lin Yu himself can serve as a ranged sub-DPS, and someone needs to fill in when he is serving as a ranged sub-DPS. But what's the point of recruiting a support character?

"Lin Yu, our team's support is Ye Lengleng from the Nine-Hearted Begonia Sect, the strongest healing-type Soul Master on the continent. Why do we need to recruit another support-type Soul Master?"

Although forming a team is also working for Lin Yu, and he, as the eldest prince, shouldn't interfere too much, he can't just follow Lin Yu's lead if Lin Yu can't explain things clearly.

Faced with Xue Qinghe's doubts, Lin Yu really wanted to say: "As long as I'm there, it won't affect whether my teammates are there or not."

However, the Youth Soul Master Competition is a grand event in this world, and in order to feel a sense of participation, Lin Yu still offered some of his own interpretations.

"Although I haven't had systematic training, I've come to understand a few things through my years of practice."

"Let me state my conclusion first: the support role is the core of a team."

"Although I haven't received systematic training, I have heard some teachings: the control system is the core of a team."

"This kind of teaching is fine from an academic perspective. After all, a team is a whole, and each person is only responsible for a part of the work to make the team run more efficiently."

"However, from a personal perspective, this kind of thinking is problematic. The team has assigned you to the offensive role, and you are required to obey the instructions of the control-type Soul Master."

"But control-type Soul Masters are unaware of your situation, and their arrangements may not be to your advantage."

This is Lin Yu's gaming experience from her previous life.

In his past life, when he played games, he often heard guys using voice chat to say things like, "I've got someone under my control, why didn't you join in?"

A marksman with half health facing a controlled armored warrior, who would dare to engage if they didn't know if the opponent had their ultimate ability?

Lin Yu continued to explain.

"What I'm saying isn't that control-type Soul Masters aren't important. Control-type Soul Masters are used to initiate team battles. However, in a team battle, the role that a control-type Soul Master can play is often only for a fleeting moment."

The most typical example is Hou Yi from the game "Previous Life".

In a team, as long as Hou Yi initiates the team fight effectively, they won't lose even without other crowd control characters.

"I value support-type Soul Masters more because their status effects can cover the entire field during a team battle."

"As for why we need to recruit another support-type Soul Master, it's because Ye Lengling's Martial Soul support effect is too singular, only able to heal. If there are other support-type Soul Masters, the team's tactics can be more varied."

Tang San was actually a little unable to accept Lin Yu's idea that "support-type Soul Masters are more important than control-type Soul Masters".

He acknowledged Lin Yu's recognition and understanding of his martial spirit, and also appreciated Lin Yu's help to him.

However, he did not agree that "control-type soul masters are inferior to support-type soul masters." Although Yu Xiaogang's teaching methods had problems, he did have an understanding of martial souls.

Especially for control-type Soul Masters, Tang San had Blue Silver Grass, and his first two Soul Rings were both geared towards the control type.

Therefore, he had some objections when he heard Lin Yu deny the existence of control-type soul masters.

"Senior, I think there's something wrong with what you just said about control-type characters being inferior to support-type characters."

Hearing that Tang San had other opinions, Lin Yu realized that she had been too focused on recalling the game from her previous life.

If anyone's to blame, it's the world's setting.

In the previous game, each position had a certain control effect. Even Huang Zhong and Ren Xin, who didn't have any control skills, had ultimate skills and Warm Winter Home to keep enemies in place and initiate team fights.

Lin Yu didn't quite understand why this world had a separate category called "Control System".

Faced with what Tang San was about to say, Lin Yu quickly tried to cover up what she had just said.

"Tang San, don't just listen to this one sentence. If you connect it with what I said earlier, you should be able to understand what I'm trying to say: control-type skills can raise the upper limit of a team, but support-type skills can raise the lower limit of a team."

"Excellent control-type Soul Masters are hard to find, but powerful support-type Soul Masters are easy to find."

Tang San was still a little unconvinced after hearing this and wanted to argue, but Lin Yu ruthlessly interrupted him.

"Tang San, although your first two spirit rings were developed towards the control type, your martial soul determines that you won't go far on the path of control."

"Life isn't just about competitions; you should think more about your future."

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